Velikhov, Evgeny Pavlovich
Dr. Velikhov is the President of the Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" - a nationwide complex of research facilities and considered one of the top scientific institutions in the country. It enjoys a special status within the Russian scientific apparatus, reporting directly to the Russian Prime Minister. He is a renowned scientist in the field of plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, and the inventor of the high impulse magnetic-hydrodynamic high-power generator that is used in electromagnetic soundings of the deep earth crust. He has been a principal arms control negotiator for many years, an international leader of the ITER/Tokamac and other global high energy physics projects, the driving force in development of the Russian Internet, the creator of the Russian branch of computing and informatics in the Russian Academy of Science (and recently named Academician-Secretary (head) of this branch), the creator and initial head of the Soviet (now Russian) Nuclear Safety Institute, former vice president (for 18 years) of the Soviet/Russian Academy of Science, current member of the Russian President's Defense Council, President's Scientific and Technical Policy Council, Co-Chairman of the President's Culture Council, Russia's representative on the International Council for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, creator of the Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace and Against the Nuclear Threat, organizer/creator of "The International Forum for a Non-Nuclear World and the Survival of Humanity," founder of joint US-Russian International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, an important Soviet/Russian environmentalist, the US-proclaimed "hero of Chernobyl" (who personally oversaw the cleanup of this unprecedented nuclear disaster).
In addition to his scientific and political roles, Dr. Velikhov has been active for many years on various children's initiatives. He established the first US-Soviet children's email network in 1988 (which later became I*EARN) and brought Junior Achievement into Russia in 1991, which in 2002 witnessed education of the 2 millionth Russian child in principles and practices of business management and the free market economy.
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